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Oh, the shame of it all …

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I had to send an email to the English Dept. graduate adviser today because I was worried about a change I was going to affect and whether or not it would diminish my prospects re graduating. The MA has a very simple set of requirements:

  1. English 501
  2. One course in literary theory or rhetoric
  3. Two courses in literature in English prior to 1800
  4. Two courses in literature in English after 1800

Those are the only class requirements for the degree (there are a few other requirements, but that’s not what we are talking about). Anyway, as someone who studies post-WWII fiction, I would theoretically not have trouble fulfilling the third requirement, right? Wrong, actually.

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